Senior Database Administrator

About the role

As a Senior Database Administrator on the RANDA team, you will contribute to database management of highly complex and large-scale data-driven systems to enable RANDA business while supporting architectural vision of quality, scalability, performance, and functions.

Responsibilities

• Selecting and deploying appropriate AWS database services such as Amazon RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, and Redshift with optimal scale and cost
• Monitoring AWS database health using tools like Amazon CloudWatch and Performance Insights
• Configure and test High Available automatic failover mechanisms to reroute traffic seamlessly if a primary node goes offline
• Monitor replication lag and data consistency across all nodes
• Manage load balancing to distribute read and write traffic evenly across the cluster
• Maintain RANDA database systems and improve their performance in conjunction with data development and software engineering teams to ensure smooth database operations across the enterprise
• Surgically work on performance monitoring, tuning, identifying, and fixing issues within database realm
• Take ownership in building highly available database clusters
• Establish database systems monitoring dashboards and procedures that will enable 24/7 business operations. Create alerts and develop processes to remediate known performance issues.
• Collaborate to build robust Disaster Recovery system and architecture for database systems
• Be part of ongoing monitoring support with other Database Administrators

Qualifications

• 6-10 years in commercial-grade business applications environment leveraging the following:
  • SQL Server Database Administration 2008, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2019, 2022
  • Hands on experience with AlwaysOn Availability Groups their creation, maintenance, and monitoring
  • Expert at troubleshooting performance issues
  • Maintain production servers, SSIS packages
  • General understanding of SAN technologies and 3rd party monitoring tools
  • Have good grasp of Cloud technology stack like AWS (Azure, Google Cloud is acceptable as well)
• Excellent communication, verbal and writing skills
• Minimal oversight required

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Three weeks of paid time off within the first year of employment
• Company provided life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and paid parental leave
• Health, vision, and dental insurance options with low employee contributions
• Commuter benefit plan
• Optional supplemental life insurance, pet insurance, and accident & critical illness insurance offered at a group discount rate
• 401(k)
• Unlimited access to our award-winning online fitness and wellness program
• A great place to work, fast-paced, with terrific career growth

Location: Farmers Branch, TX
Schedule: Hybrid (3 days in-office / 2 days remote)